(Original post by LeSacMagique)The first question has to be what the nature of the ‘struggle’ in each text is. In Faustus there seem to be two struggles: between Faustus and the divine or infernal agents who try to sway him alternately into sin and into repentance, and between the forces of Hell and Heaven. The dual nature of the struggle is encapsulated in Faustus’ response to the Old Man’s plea that he repent – ‘I do repent, and yet I do despair. // Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.’ The syntactic parallelism of ‘I do repent’ and ‘I do despair’ suggests just how even-sided Faustus’ struggle is. ‘Conquest’ has connotations of wider warfare between good and evil that are picked up on elsewhere in the text: Marlowe very often describes Lucifer and his crew in terms of military hierarchy and government, with Lucifer himself being ‘Arch-regent and commander of all spirits’, Mephistopheles his ‘minister’, Beelzebub his ‘companion prince’, and Faustus’ soul enlarging his ‘kingdom’. The terminology of nationhood used to describe Lucifer and his realm emphasises the warlike qualities of the struggle between Hell and Heaven: something that was picked up on in the 2011 Globe performance of the play, where the good and bad angels were dressed in military attire, complete with swords. This might be a somewhat clumsy way of making the point, perhaps, especially when compared with the subtler portrayal of the characters in productions where the angels have been represented by Faustus’ internal monologue, like the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1974 production, but it does show just how martially Marlowe’s depiction of the struggle can be read.

I regret not seeing the play now. The militaristic aspect of his struggle is the first I've heard of it.

I did the exam in January, we did Donne/Malfi and Othello. The questions weren't too bad, the Donne/Malfi question was something to do with marriage/general relationship stuff, so I basically went down the route of comparing Antonio and the Duchess to the other main pair in the play, Cardinal/Julia, and the differing portrayals of Donne's relationship with his wife, such as in Elegy XIX and The Good Morrow. I can't remember the Othello question, but I remember using the quote "Iago is a motiveless malignity," so perhaps something to do with Iago as the antagonist/his character, or perhaps it was an Othello-centric question about his character. Either way, I came out thinking I'd done pretty bad, but I actually got 105/120 and am currently on track for an A* if my coursework grade isn't moderated down

Aah i'm doing Othello, Pardoner and faustus. I really want an A* for it as well!
our class have had not so good teaching haha so we've had to do it ourselves really. i'm just gonna do key quotes for each theme and try to match them to critics...

(Original post by rocknrollnerd)
Does anyone have any good Donne quotes to remember?

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If you want a critical quote, the one I used to end my essay was from T.S. Eliot, from a poem that he did, don't copy this word for word (I suggest you look up the actual quote because my memory is a bit hazy) but it goes something like "Donne was wise beyond his years" and a bit after that

(Original post by rocknrollnerd)
Does anyone have any good Donne quotes to remember?

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The first and last lines/sentences of each poem are always good, and I've just gone through each poem and found a quotation that sums up the main ideas/themes in the poem, as well as the themes you're studying - are you doing Malfi too? Which poems are you doing? I can send you some of my quotations if we're doing the same poems.

(Original post by NickyJWatkinson)
The first and last lines/sentences of each poem are always good, and I've just gone through each poem and found a quotation that sums up the main ideas/themes in the poem, as well as the themes you're studying - are you doing Malfi too? Which poems are you doing? I can send you some of my quotations if we're doing the same poems.

Public/Private Environment settings came up in jan 12 and Iago and othello together have already come up
i think
-Emilia--> about how she used to considered as minor and now she's not, or like how she's empowered in comparison to other women
Desdemona with someone or
othello + race
or Othello alone

Public/Private Environment settings came up in jan 12 and Iago and othello together have already come up

So i reckon

-Emilia....about how she used to considered as minor character and now she's not, she is seen as highly influential, or how she's empowered in comparison to other women
Desdemona with someone or
othello + race
or Othello alone

Public/Private Environment settings came up in jan 12 and Iago and othello together have already come up

So I reckon...

-Emilia--> about how she used to considered as minor character and now she's not, she is seen as very influential, or how she's empowered in comparison to other women
Desdemona with someone
Othello + race
or Othello alone